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Gail Capsello (proxy quilter from '54) used a piece of vintage material and embroidered the class year on it.  She also outlined part of the leaf and signed her work of art.

Reunion

55th REUNION
FRIDAY, July 30, 2010
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Casual Get Together - Cash Bar
Saratoga Steaks – (The Old Tecumseh)
It is an excellent restaurant where you can also have your dinner beforehand

SATURDAY, July 31, 2010
12:30PM to 3:30 PM Picnic Lunch and Party
Jamesville Beach Park - Sandpiper Shelter

6:00PM to 10:00PM Cocktails and Reunion Dinner
Drumlins – Members Lounge
6:00pm Cash bar opens
6:30pm Returning class members photo
7:00pm Dinner

The Contracts for Drumlins, Jamesville Beach, Saratoga Steaks and the photographer are all in place.

Jack Loveland, Chm 315-446-4004 jrloveland@aol.com
Marty Levine, V Chm, 315-637-9252 superheb@aol.com

We are beginning to gather a CONTACT COMMITTEE from around the country to make calls and send e-mails to encourage people to attend and to update our mailing list. If you would like to help, please send us an e-mail.

News

Several issues of "The Citizen" are now online:
September 14, 1953
December 21, 1953
May 24, 1954


Greg (’55) & Carol Cobb Clarke (’54) from Douglasville, GA: It was with pride and pleasure that we received the latest edition of the "Nottingham Connection".It was also a very sad experience to see my good and great friend Judy Gray on the front page. She was a very special lady and Carol and I cherish the time we were able to spend with her when visiting Central New York. We had quite an e-mail correspondence for several years.

On another sad note, The class of 1954 lost two members not mentioned in the "Connection". Howard Pabst and Edward "Buddy" Frick, both life long friends starting with Salem Hyde School, Lincoln Junior High and Nottingham. Both these individuals grew to be fine men and were accomplished in their chosen fields. Howie after graduation from the naval Academy went on to have a rewarding career with the US Navy. Buddy, an engineer had a great career with the New York State Department of Transportation. Two men Nottingham can be proud to call their own.

Carol and I continue to volunteer in the archives of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History. for the past year we have been working with the presidents files of the Southern Rail road,(Now the Norfolk and Southern). following the civil war, the south had much to do to get back on their feet, and railroading was one of the several means of doing this. From the files of Samuel Spencer and those that followed him are cleaned, cataloged and made ready for researchers of the future. Many of the principals working for and administrating the Southern were former officers in the Confederate Army and more often than not refer to one another by their former military rank, from Captains to Colonels. The unfolding of the history is what the real world was like at the end of the 19th century and the early days of the 20th. You folks are doing a great job with the Nottingham Connection. in our household it is read from cover to cover and then reread. Keep up the great work.

Greg Clarke ('55) & Carol Clarke ('54), of Georgia, have both passed the background checks and the drug tests and are now working volunteers of the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History.  Carol is volunteering in the Education Department, and Greg is working in the Archives Department.  Greg write, “I have fallen into the greatest position a person could ever hope for.”

 

Obituaries

Anthony Kotz (’55), 71, of Jamesville, NY, died December 18, 2009. He was a landscape architect. A graduate of SUNY’s ESF, his work involved land planning, site design, parks, recreational and athletic facilities, and master planning in numerous locations. He was active in many professional organizations and was a visiting professor and guest lecturer at ESF and other colleges and universities. In recent years he was involved in preserving the dune system. He is survived by his wife, two sons, two stepsons, a stepdaughter, and 12 grandchildren.

Michael “Mike” Alpern ('55) died May 13, 2007, in Key West, FL. He was involved in community theater while in Syracuse, retiring from Superior Electric in 1993 and moving to Florida. In Key West he worked at the Wreckers Museum, Hemingway Cat House, and Heritage Houses Museum. He is survived by three children, three grandchildren, his sister Iris Ann Maxon, and a nephew, Jason Maxon.

Alan Yehle (’55), 69, of Savannah, GA, died December 15, 2006. A graduate of Cornell, Alan served 17 years in the Army, attaining the rank of Major. He then worked as an accountant in various hotels in Augusta and Savannah. Surviving are his wife, a daughter, two sons, two grandchildren, and two siblings, Gene McCarthy of Jamesville and Eliot Klatzkin of Yardley, PA.

Mel LaForce (’55), 69, of Durhamville, died December 20, 2006.

Richard Kessler (’55), 68, of Cleveland,NY, died December 4, 2006. He retired as a computer programmer for General Electric. He is survived by a son and two granddaughters, a brother Robert of Germantown, TN, and a sister, Judi Keller, of Cicero.



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